Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth detail collaborative album Utopian Ashes 1 April, 2021 Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth have drawn on the classic country duet tradition of artists such as Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, and George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth are exploring ‘the loss, miscommunication and emotional inarticulacy’ of a married couple whose relationship is breaking down on their first album Utopian Ashes. “In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here,” Beth explains. “But you put yourself in it, because you’re trying to understand the human situation. The singing has to be authentic. That’s all that matters.”